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Is there any new Macbook (Not Macbook Pro) coming out soon? It seems about time for a new one. I have looked at a few rumors, but they just left me more confused. So, has anyone heard about a new Macbook coming to Apple?

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If you're talking about a new design, then I'm just going to point you to the post above me. But if you're talking about a small upgrade similar to the Macbook Pro Santa Rosa update a couple months ago, then I'll direct you to the post below yours.

That's because many of them are intentionally ambiguous.
Bottom line... No. Nobody but Apple knows what's coming out before it comes out. Nobody ever has, nobody ever will, and unless you see it on Apple's site... it's not true and thereby worthless speculation.

In reply to you,

I kind of disagree, I have read many Mac rumor's that are true, and do, in fact come to pass. Most of the mac rumors that I have read, have, indeed come to pass

I'll admit, about 15 years ago I thought the same thing. Then I started to really read those "prognostications" and found that they really don't tell you much of anything. They don't come from Apple. They are from market analysts, investors, tech-bloggers... basically from anyone BUT an actual source at Apple.
In the calendar year 2005 to 2006, rumor sites scored about a 30/100 (and that is being very generous). In all, they scored:

In a total of 30 situations, they only got 11 of them partially to mostly correct. Rarely, if ever, do they get anything spot on. You can also see that for everything they got "correct" (I use the term loosely here), they completely missed something else all together. In short, their odds of getting something right are no better than simple chance... and that is pretty much par for the course.

So... in all my years of using Apple products, watching Apple release products, and hearing about the crazy rumors and predictions people come up with about Apple releasing products... the rumor mills get it wrong much more often than they get anything even close to right. That being said, I can say with at least some degree of knowledge and authority that rumor sites are mostly crap.

mac: a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
MAC: a data communication protocol sub-layer, also known as the Media Access Control
Mac: a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.